Adaptrum Counters NAB Opposition to White Spaces Waiver Request
Adaptrum urged NAB to support its waiver application aimed at helping to bring broadband to rural Maine. There are no UHF TV channels on-air in the proposed deployment area of Maine, Adaptrum said in reply comments in docket 14-187. At…
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the proposed 250 feet, “the chance of interfering with nearby TV receivers is practically ZERO,” it said. The filing is a response to NAB’s reply comments arguing that if the FCC grants Adaptrum’s request, Adaptrum should be required to operate with two vacant TV channels on either side of the channel on which these devices operate. “Excessive guardbands merely decrease service opportunities to citizens in an area where there is now little over-the-air TV or broadband,” Adaptrum said.